Word: slopes
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...woods and streams, in fact the typical English landscape, so often set forth in the English novel, makes it seem impossible that the great metropolis should be so near. Harrow is by nature admirably suited for either recreation or study. The school buildings are located on the brow and slope of a high hill, commanding an extensive prospect on all sides. From the summit, part of six counties are visible, and the Surrey Hills, the Thames, Windsor Castle, and part of London meet the spectator's eye. Some of the buildings are very old, built in a massive style...
...Inquisition. These forms are shellackd, stained, or painted black, according to the taste of the architect, and numbered so as to contain twice their natural complement of occupants. The chairs, fastened together as in the larger lecture rooms, offer no special peculiarities, except that they give a consumptive slope to the shoulders. The cramping of knees and elbows, and a high degree of hardness they have in common with the "forms...
Harvard College was founded in September, 1636, and its first class of nine members graduated in 1842. Its 200th anniversary was duly observed. September 8, 1836. Appropriate services were held in the First Parish Church. A large tent was erected south-east of Gore Hall, on the rising slope, where, after the services in the church, the large assembly of the alumni of the college sat down to dinner...
...Springfield Republican thus describes the beauties of Cornell: "The immediate surroundings and scenery of Cornell are romantic in a high degree. Fancy the college yard of Yale, Harvard or Amherst enlarged to the size of Boston Common and the Public Garden, and place the 'campus' upon the steep slope of Holyoke or Mount Tom, intersect the region below with gorges and water-falls at every half-mile, and let these empty a perpetually cascading stream into Long Island Sound, and you will have some notion of the natural beauties and difficulties of Ithaca...
...found that the college grounds would be cramped by the building of the new Jefferson Laboratory, the hollows were filled up and a large hummock leveled, then this new field was planted with grass-seed. The whole is an acre or so in extent and has only a gentle slope toward the southeast. Mr. Eveleth, superintendent of the grounds, said that in June, after the grass had been cut once, the turf would be in a condition for use. This seemed hardly probable to one looking at the softness of the grounds at present. However, next fall, or year from...